A Harvard student group is urging students and faculty members to skip dinner on November 18 to raise money for the Oxford Committee for Famine Relief (Oxfam), an international organization that sponsors development and relief projects in the Third World.
Robert P. Moynihan '75-4, a spokesman for the Harvard Hunger Action Project, said he hopes the fast will raise $2500. A similar fast last year raised $1200 for Oxfam.
95 Cents!
Frank J. Weissbecker, director of the Food Services, said yesterday that the University will donate 95 cents to Oxfam for each meal skipped, as long as participating students sign up in advance. Weissbecker added that interhouse dining will not be allowed that night.
Moynihan said his group hopes to involve "half the student body" in the fast.
The Harvard fast is part of a nationwide fast that day, organized mostly at colleges and churches, Kathleen R. Cahill, an Oxfam spokesman, said yesterday.
Cahill said Oxfam hopes to raise $300,000 nationwide from the fast.
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